Science: a four thousand year history

by Fara, Patricia

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Title Statements

Full title :Science : a four thousand year history / Patricia Fara.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 408 pages : : illustrations, cartes ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199226894, 019922689X
oclc:ocn468187926
LC Classification:Q125
Dewey Decimal:509

1 : Origins -- Sevens -- Babylon -- Heroes -- Cosmos -- Life -- Matter -- Technology -- 2 : Interactions -- Eurocentrism -- China -- Islam -- Scholarship -- Europe -- Aristotle -- Alchemy -- 3 : Experiments -- Exploration -- Magic -- Astronomy -- Bodies -- Machines -- Instruments -- Gravity -- 4 : Institutions -- Societies -- Systems -- Careers -- Industries -- Revolutions -- Rationality -- Disciplines -- 5 : Laws -- Progress -- Globalization -- Objectivity -- God -- Evolution -- Power -- Time -- 6 : Invisibles -- Life -- Germs -- Rays -- Particles -- Genes -- Chemicals -- Uncertainties -- 7 : Decisions -- Warfare -- Heredity -- Cosmology -- Information -- Rivalry -- Environment -- Futures.